I see why this series killed the studio. Its boring, its designed for you to just talk to people that whole game, not only do you get hardly any XP for combat, but it ridiculasly hard to the point most will quit in the first hour. Piranaha studio should have shut down after Gothic 2.
I'm a harcore fan of great shooters/explortaion and the like. Even more so, games that challenge. This mess? (I'm being gracious) is an exercise in frustration - it is awful - it is a head shaking - eye rolling piece of nonsense. I do not need to go into details - pay the price and see for yourselves. OR - skip it and save some hard earned. TERRIBLE controls - TERRIBLE combat - etc etc etc ... -10
I cannot say anything about the story of this game, having played less than 30 minutes, after which I completely lost any and all interest. Indeed, now I deeply regret buying this game at all.
Issue 1: The graphics are glitchy. They are actually rather lovely, but despite good hardware (16GB RAM, 3.6GHz and a 1070 Nvidia GPU), they glitched very badly, flickering between pixelated and proper with such speed that it gave me a severe headache. This is the first and only time such a thing happened to me. I would also like to mention that no other games I play glitch, and that all drivers are up to date.
Issue 2: There is no character creator. You can determine nothing about your character beyond gameplay. Deeply disappointing for an RPG. No appearance changes, no voice changes, no gender changes. You play as an ugly white dude TM. Any remaining interest I had in the game, after I nursed a headache, was killed by this disappointment.
Thus, for me, this game is absolutely not worth the money you pay for it, right now. It might be that the story is good - but I have 0 motivation to give it a chance, at all.